The veil surrounding Mother! has been lifted and, thanks to our own Ignatiy Vishnevetsky’s review, we now have a small idea just how gruesome and deranged Darren Aronofsky’s new film really is. While public details are still scarce, we learned a bit about Mother!’s extensive rehearsal process from Aronofsky yesterday.…

Darren Aronofsky’s preoccupation with paranoid, physically grotesque searches for meaning—a curious mix of deep-think and makeup effects that goes back to his black-and-white debut feature, Pi—grimly paints humanity as a species defined by obsessions, addictions, delusions, and self-destruction, its only prophets…

At the conclusion of an other wise pretty uneventful panel at Comic-Con, HBO unveiled a new teaser for the second season of its hit series Westworld. As you might expect from the show that launched a thousand fan theories, “tease” is the right word for it—although its lack of substance could also be because filming…

While it took more than 40 years for the 1973 science-fiction film Westworld to become an HBO series, it didn’t have to be that way. Other downbeat sci-fi movies of that era, including Logan’s Run and Planet Of The Apes, got TV adaptations way sooner than that. Now, righting a historical wrong, artist and animator Tom…

John Glenn, who died today at the age of 95, had a long career in the public eye, which gave him the superlatives of “first American to orbit the Earth” and “oldest man in space,” alongside a tenure as Democratic Senator from Ohio. In death, Glenn has naturally been lauded as a true hero—and that’s how Hollywood…

The identity of The Man In Black continues to be one of Westworld’s most talked-about mysteries. The internet is full of theories about his history, his occupation, his motivations, even whether his story takes place in the same time period as everything else on the show. Like any other J.J. Abrams-touched puzzle-box…

James Franco may or may not be a promising filmmaker, but he’s not afraid of failure. You’ve got to give him that. Twice, the 38-year-old multi-hyphenate has attempted to rope the byzantine narratives of William Faulkner into a cinematic structure—2013’s As I Lay Dying and 2014’s The Sound And The Fury—and bothtimes…

Sexy Naked Renegade Robot Cowboys is kind of a mouthful, which probably explains why HBO decided to stick with the title of the 1973 Michael Crichton movie upon which its new series Westworld is based. And while that title isn’t quite as explanatory, it’s still pretty evocative of the universe this “mature version”of…

With so many TV networks and streaming services now available, time is at a premium even within the two full weeks of the Television Critics Association conference. So even a juggernaut like HBO only commandeers a single Saturday morning at the TCAs, and was limited to five particular shows.

One week a month, Watch Thisoffers movie recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This week: The summer movie season is upon us again, meaning it’s time for our annual tribute to the unloved, underrated, or generally neglected summer blockbusters.

Potentially typecasting himself (even further) as an artist whose ostensible interest in the wider world always somehow ends up being focused on himself, James Franco is starring in the film adaptation of Stephen Elliott’s inward-looking true-crime memoir The Adderall Diaries. Split between Elliott’s investigation…

In 2000, writer-director Michael Almereyda took on the best of William Shakespeare, transposing the seminal tragedy Hamlet to modern-day Manhattan and the world of corporate cutthroats. (Ethan Hawke’s moody young prince declaiming the “To be or not to be…” speech in a Blockbuster video aisle was just one of the film’s…

Director Jaume Collet-Serra’s third consecutive Liam Neeson movie, Run All Night, feels like a letdown after the Euro-thriller twists of Unknownand the locked-room crisscrossing ofNon-Stop. Working again with a ticking-clock premise—which finds hit man Jimmy (Neeson) ripping through New York in order to keep his…

If you’re planning on getting tangled up in shady activities any time soon, you better hope your dad is Liam Neeson. Neeson has already saved his daughter a handful of times in the Taken series and now he’s tasked with protecting his son (The Killing’s Joel Kinnaman) in Run All Night. If it seems familiar, well,…

Early on, Frontera seems like one of those Crashor Babel-style narratives of tragic connectivity. Miguel (Michael Peña) crosses the border from Mexico into Arizona, hoping to eventually bring over his pregnant wife Paulina (Eva Longoria); he and his traveling partner encounter Olivia (Amy Madigan), out on a horseback…

Days after James Marsden was added to the list of potential killer robots/people to be killed by robots in Westworld, the HBO series has added a major piece to the ambiguously robotic puzzle. Ed Harris has reportedly signed on to play antagonist “The Man In Black,” a character described as “the distillation of pure…